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RMIF Overview
Terminology
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- RMIF Terminology
- RDP (Reliable Data Protocol)
- This is RMIF-specific protocol on top of UDP which implements
retries and "guarantees" delivery.
- RDP is used for control messages while "plain" UDP is used for
PLOT data.
- TCP is not suitable for "slow, high latency, unreliable" links due to high overhead
in dealing with a network interruption.
- New protocols, like SCTP, are being investigated for use in
place of RDP.
- Remote
- A "remote" is often used to refer to a host/port combination and
is represented as the string
"<host>:<port>" .
- RMIF assumes that a given
"<host>:<port>" combination
can uniquely identifies a connection.
- Channel
- A logical stream of data.
- A channel can be messages or pipes.
- Each Remote can have many channels.
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